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Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] Captain_Faraday@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Great article! Thanks! Couldn’t agree more that the age verification moves (Zero-knowledge or not) are bad news for everyone’s privacy. It is certainly a tool for constructing infrastructure to control the internet beyond “protecting children”.